My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
Source: In Quotations of Wit and Wisdom, ed. & John W. Garder et al., 1975.
-- Michelangelo, (Mar 6 1475-1564), Italian painter, sculptor, architect, poet; He lead the High Renaissance with monumental style, e.g., David, 1504 and Paintings of Sistine Chapel, 1508-12.